“You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.” — Nina LaCour Friendship Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is no right thing to say. Maybe the right thing is just a myth, not really out there at all.” — Nina LaCour Caitlin Copy Share Image
“I know," I say. "It sucks. Let's go get tacos and sit on the beach.” — Nina LaCour California Copy Share Image
“This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.” — Nina LaCour Art Copy Share Image
“We take a last look out of the window at the night, and I send a silent wish to everyone out there… — Nina LaCour Love Copy Share Image
“I've been waiting for this for so long--something new, life after high school.” — Nina LaCour High school Copy Share Image
“I can't think of enough expletives to perfectly capture this moment.” — Nina LaCour Expletives Copy Share Image
“Sometimes inspiration strikes; other times you have to hunt it down.” — Nina LaCour Hunt Copy Share Image
“We all want to be feel something, we want to be someone to one another.” — Nina LaCour Feel Copy Share Image
“I wonder if there’s a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something,… — Nina LaCour Life Copy Share Image
“I thought they were helping you through everything." "No," I say. "I was alone there." In her face something is shifting. A… — Nina LaCour Guessing Copy Share Image
“YOu just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every… — Nina LaCour Caitlin Copy Share Image
“And we step off the curb, all of us together, as if to say: Here we come. Through hard days and good… — Nina LaCour Hard days Copy Share Image
“Maybe it doesn't matter, maybe if we all force ourselves to act like we're okay even if we're not, eventually things will… — Nina LaCour Eventually Copy Share Image
“I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment. That would be romanticization. What it actually felt like was… — Nina LaCour Life Copy Share Image
“I sort through the letters and pull out what I need for the beginning. They snap easily into place. And even though… — Nina LaCour Letter Copy Share Image
“I want to tell you all the sad things, and then you will know me better than other people know me and… — Nina LaCour Reserved Copy Share Image
“What is was, was that we complemented each other. We just fit in this way that made strangers ask us if we… — Nina LaCour Sisters Copy Share Image
“Here it is, all at once: rightness. Not the graffiti itself, even though it's undeniably spectacular, but this feeling of making plans… — Nina LaCour Graffiti Copy Share Image
“And I think of how time passes so differently for different people. Mabel and Jacob, their months in Los Angeles, months full… — Nina LaCour Different people Copy Share Image
“We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to… — Nina LaCour Cinema Copy Share Image
“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be… — Nina LaCour Forever Copy Share Image
“When I think of all of us then, I see how we were in danger. Not because of the drinking or the… — Nina LaCour Confidence Copy Share Image
“When you're friends with someone for such a long time, it's easy to feel like she belongs to you, like the version… — Nina LaCour Friend Copy Share Image
“Then, without really realizing it, I start to think of one thing I did wrong for each tree I look at. Wide… — Nina LaCour Time Copy Share Image
“I need to leave something behind. Something that will stay. This room should be a historical landmark, the site of the beginning… — Nina LaCour History Copy Share Image
“How it all started was in the first day of English, when Brother John had us analyze some stupid poem, and you… — Nina LaCour Poetry Copy Share Image
“There’s still this thing that happens after you break up with someone. It barely takes any time to work. All you have… — Nina LaCour Break Copy Share Image
“The first time she carved something into her skin, she used the sharp tip of an X-Acto knife. She lifted up her… — Nina LaCour Cutting Copy Share Image
“Here's how I feel: People take one another for granted. Like, I'd just hang out with Ingrid in all these random places--in… — Nina LaCour Big deal Copy Share Image
“You go through life thinking there's so much you need. Your favorite jeans and sweater. The jacket with the faux-fur lining to… — Nina LaCour Books Copy Share Image
“Whenever Ingrid and I got out of the suburbs, into Berkeley or San Francisco, and saw how other people lived, Ingrid would… — Nina LaCour Depression Copy Share Image
“I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it,… — Nina LaCour High school Copy Share Image
